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Postfix: The Definitive Guide is a technical administration manual by Kyle D. Dent for deploying and operating the Postfix mail transfer agent on Unix-like systems. Published in the early 2000s, it combines tutorial instruction with reference material rather than presenting a conceptual history of email alone. Its purpose is to explain how Postfix receives, queues, routes, filters, and delivers messages, then show how administrators adapt those functions to real mail-server requirements. The book moves from installation and fundamental configuration toward multi-domain hosting, relaying, mailing lists, spam controls, authentication, encryption, content filtering, and database-backed lookups. A central practical concern is the relationship between Postfix itself and supporting services such as POP, IMAP, SASL, TLS, LDAP, and MySQL. Dent also treats configuration as an operational discipline: readers must understand message flow, daemon responsibilities, address rewriting, and queue behavior before changing settings. The result is a structured guide for administrators who need a coherent model of a Postfix installation rather than disconnected configuration fragments.